Improvement in revolving fire-arms



FREEMAN WV. HOOD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN REVOLVING FIRE=ARNIS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,593, (lated July 4, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREEMAN W. HOOD, oi' Boston, of the county of Sui-'tolk and State ot Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Revolver Fire-Arms; and do hereby declare the'same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying' drawing, otl which- Figure 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2 a bottom view ot' a pistol provided with my invention, the rotary charge-magazine being' represented in such igures as drawn laterally out ot' the stoek. Fig. 3 is a vertical and longitudinal section ot' the tire-arm, showing the charge-magazine as within the stock, or the chamber or space thereoi' for reception ot such mag'azine.

1n this pistol the rotary charge-block or ma azineA is pivoted uponaswinging arm, B, which, at or near its front end, is jointed or pivoted to the barrel. G, the joint-pin or pivot being seen at a. That part ot' the swinging arm on which the magazine revolves is shown at b, it being' oi sut'- lieient length to admit the magazine to slide the necessary distance lengthwise on it. The recess inthe stoet l) t'or the reception of the magazine is shown at c, especially in Fig. i, which is a side view ot it as it appears, without the magazine and its appurtenanees. In ad tance or' the magazine and upon the swinging arm is a slide-piece, E, formed as represented, and particularly in Fig. 5, which is a top view, and in Fig. (i, which is a rear elevation et' it. lt will be observed that it is a wedge-shaped block ot' metal, provided not only with a suitable opening, d, to receive the swinging arm, but with a bore or hole, e, corresponding in diameter with that of the barrel, and constituting a continuation of the bore ot the barrel when the slide.- piece is within its socket. The rear end of the barrel, or that part ot' the magazine-socket next to the front tace of the slide-piece, is beveled to correspond with the bevel ofthe front ofthe slide-piece, and to operate as an abutment for the slide-piece, and to constitute a cam, k, to press it back while the magazine is in the act ot' being moved into its recess. A lever-latch, F, provided with an actuating spring, e', pivoted in the stock and arranged as shown, serves, by catching into a recess or notch, j', in the swingin g arm, when the latter' is in its innermost position, to hold the arm and the magazine in place relatively to thestock, or while the piece may be fired. The slide-piece E is to admit ofthe magazine being moved laterally out of its recess and into it, as occasion may require. The slide-piece enables the magazine to slide forward on its spindle while both are being moved out of the recess, the movement being sutiicient to prevent the back ofthe recess from estopping the magazine. XVhile the magazine is in the act ot' being moved inward the slide-piece, by the action ofthe beveled cam, will, with thenutgazine, be forced back on the spindle or pivot ofthe magazine, and, whenV the magazine maybe back in the recess, such slide-piece will hold it in its rearmost position therein. Against the rear end of the magazine the eartridge-retractor Gr, it being' termed as shown in rear view iiLFig. 7 and in side view in Fig'. S. Fig. 9 is arear end view, and Fig. 10 a side view et' the magazine without the retractor. The said retractor G is a disk or circular plate, pert'orated, as shown at l1., to tit upon the rear part or proiection, fi, of the maga-zine. The retraetor has a diameter a little greater than that ot' the magazine, and is connected to such magazine by two projecting pins, lt lv', that enter correspoiuling holes in the magazine and slide freely therein. The pins la It are kept in connection with the magazine and retractorbymeans oi" the screws L l screwed into said retract-o1'. and heads o o on the other ends of the pins, said heads being larger in diameter than and projecting beyond the body ol' the pins, and arranged in stop-sockets or bores m. fm, as shown.

B y taking hold of tl 1e retraetor with the thumb and index-linger, applied to opposite parts of its periphery, the rectractor, when the maga-zine is out of its recess, may be drawn baekwa 'd so as to extract at once from the magazine all the cartridges or cartridge-shells that, at the time, may be in the charge-chambers o o' o o thereof.

I do not claim a cartridge-extraetor as made and applied to a magazine in manner as shown in the United States Patent No. 5,912. Nor do I cla-im anything' described and shown in the United States Patent No. 26,919.

l claim- The arrangement and combina-tion of the wedged slide-piece E with. t-he rotary magazine A, its swinging arm B, and the abutment or cam k for operating the wedged slide-piece, as explained, all being substantially as specified.

FREEMAN W. HOOD.

W'itnesses R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

